The Impact Of Technology On Trench Warfare

They knew about the basics like hand grenades, rifles, and pistols; but they didn’t have the slightest idea of the gas attacks, machine guns, and tanks. The Germans used the machine gun and gas to their advantage, and it was a deadly combo in trench warfare. The Germans would shoot gas into the enemy’s trenches, sort of like a mortar shell. The unlucky soldiers who have broken their masks would crawl out of the trench to try to get some fresh air (or so they thought). The German machine guns would tear through the crawling soldiers that were desperate for air. On the Western Front, many soldiers died because of this, mostly French and British, due to lack of knowledge and disastrous plans. However, due to this cruel and disastrous plan, the Germans had to pay for all of the damages that they have caused in the Great War. They only fully paid out this debt in

Next in the development of machine guns came the Maxim, the machine gun with only one barrel. This gun with a belt of bullets that fed in one side and the empty belt came out the other side. It used the explosion from the bullets firing to load the next bullet. With the use of different

The trench system on the Western Front consisted of front-line, support and reserve trenches. The three rows of trenches covered between 200 and 500 yards of ground. Communication trenches were dug at an angle to those facing the enemy. These trenches used to transport men equipment and food supplies.

The British High Command were less enthusiastic about machine gun technology, supposedly considering the weapon too "unsporting", and they lagged behind the Germans in adopting the weapon. In 1915 the Machine Gun Corps was formed to train and provide sufficient heavy machine gun teams. To match demand, production of the Vickers machine gun was contracted to firms in the USA. By 1917, every company in the British forces was also equipped with four light Lewis machine guns, which significantly enhanced their

A Rifle could shoot a bullet up to 1,000 yards–and were more accurate. However, until the 1850s it was nearly impossible to use these guns in battle because, since a rifle’s bullet had roughly the same diameter as its barrel, they took too long to load. (Soldiers sometimes had to pound the bullet into the barrel with a mallet.)

The technology of World War II, which lasted from 1939 to 1945, was a big part of the determination of the outcome of the war. Much of the technology was developed during the interwar years. Some of it was developed because of failure and hindrance in war progression, obviously because of inefficient technology. Still some was in the beginning stages of development as the war ended. Though earlier war greatly utilized science, mathematics, and innovation, World War II had the largest impact on the innovation in technology of the current lives of Americans. Furthermore, no war, preceeding or succeeding, was as profoundly affected by science, mathematics, and technology as World War II. Science and technology have always made

Hiram Maxim created Machine Gun and in 1883, he created the first multi bullet-firing weapon. This lead to wider development of automatic weapons which were later used in war. (Note: the 1862 Gatling gun which was ran by hand cranking.)

In wars prior to the Civil War, soldiers wielded weapons such as the musket which shot only one bullet at a time. Though these types of weaponry could shoot as far as 250 yards, they were inconvenient and wasted time. To even aim at the target accurately one had to be 80 yards away. Similarly to muskets, rifles were inconvenient because they took a while to reload because the bullet was almost the same size of the barrel and again, wasted time. Bullets with a pointed tip were created in 1848 by Claude Minie. Because the diameter of the bullets were smaller than the barrel, soldiers could put them into the gun quicker and more effectively. With Minie’s bullets, rifles were simpler to reload but still had to be reloaded with one bullet at a time. That unprotected gap of time made soldiers more vulnerable so in 1849 a repeating rifle called the Volitional Repeater was patented by Walter Hunt. They were popularized in 1863 during the Civil War. By this time many models were being sold but the most common one was the Spencer Carbine which could shoot seven bullets in just 30 seconds. These, like most Civil War era weapons, were produced and used by the North, but not

What technology was developed during World War II, and how has the technology developed during World War II impacted the world today?

To explain the main features of trench warfare we must look at all the points the trench design, the modern technology etc. Trenches were designed in a specific way. They were built in a zigzag fashion to accommodate for bombs destroying them. If a bomb did hit them then only a corner of the

Gatlings invention of the Gatling Gun originally came from the very same basic idea of the wheat drill that he invented back in l839 when trying to help his father’s farm, which struggled back then, to be more efficient with its time, and money.(Moss). Another invention, however not his own, that lead to the design and concept of the Gatling Gun was the Revolver, a pistol with a spinning barrel that held the bullets. Gatling, wanting to make money took the opportunity and went for it. It wasn’t until after inventing the mechanized seed planting rig that he invented the Gatling Gun (Cavendish). At first things kicked off slow and did not become successful, but as the war grew and people were looking for more innovative ways to fight, the Gatling gun caught a lot of people's attention. With some improvements the gun was soon very popular and in mass production on

The discovery of gunpowder changed war from being fought with medieval weaponry and battle tactics to more modern day weapons and tactics because the gunpowder powered weapons are more deadly. Weapons that use gunpowder to launch projectiles have a greater range than melee weapons and are more powerful than bow and arrows. Also, cannons are more powerful and have a greater range and accuracy than catapults and they also can be reloaded faster than catapults. Gunpowder weapons changed war because they are stronger, more accurate, have a greater range and are able to be reloaded faster than medieval weaponry.

During the 1860’s the shells fired by a variety of weapons began to be filled with an explosive known as 'gun cotton' (nitro-cellulose). This was exactly the period of the American Civil War, and the use of the gun cotton is one of the many reasons why the conflict can be seen as the first 'modern war'. In combination with rifled, breech-loading artillery pieces, high-explosive shells could inflict much superior destruction than the concrete balls of earlier cannon. This new, fearsome power reinvigorated the use of trenches

In the beginning of the war the weapon of choice for the support troops was the M1 Carbine. The carbine was half the weight and held a less powerful cartridge than its brother, the M1 Garand. They

The second group of advances is vehicle advances. This category can be broken down into a few sub-categories. They are ground vehicles, ships, and aircraft. This category of technology was one of the most important influences of the war.